- After I built out the black lines for my skeleton,…the next step was to start to compartmentalize…different kinds of content for these boxes.…And the best way to do that is to create several…different pre compositions that you can feed…into this build comp, and mask away.…So, to demonstrate, let's go ahead and take…a piece of footage here, and I'm just going to…put that into a brand new composition,…and I'll just rename this one test.…To show you my test approach.…

And so the idea was that,…this is now one component of my grid.…Let's go ahead and step back to our build,…and then I can take that test composition,…and place it in my build, and now,…if I drag it underneath my black lines,…I can simply place it to where I like.…And so maybe, it's this section down here…that I want to occupy.…I'll go ahead and size this down,…so it kind of fits in a little bit better.…Here we go, somewhere in there.…And now all I have to do is mask this pre composition…with my rectangle tool, and my black lines as a guide,…I can click and drag, create a mask,…

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11/8/2017

In this course, Alan Demafiles covers the core aspects of After Effects commonly used in editing and post production: masks, shapes, type, logos, stills, animating, rendering, and exporting. To begin, Alan compares After Effects to Premiere Pro so you can see the similarities and differences. Then he dives into hands-on demonstrations of how to limit effects with masks, create elements with shape layers, use text templates, animate a logo, and create a 3D type extrusion. Next he shows you how to work with imported pictures, create a Z-space camera montage, change the speed of animations, and more. He wraps up by walking through outputting steps and then kicks off a challenge exercise where you can put your skills into practice.